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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Derived Score
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Open Syllable
2. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Analytic
Texas Education Code 28.06
Percentile
3. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Norm-Referenced Test
Social language
Modern English
Cognition
4. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Phonemic Awareness
Anna Gillingham
Analytic
VV
5. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Sound Symbol Association
Achievement test
Cedilla
Fluency
6. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Dyslexia
Samuel T. Orton
Old English
Tilde
7. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Joe Torgesen
Syllable Instruction
Reliability
8. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Whole Language
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Rate
Social language
9. r-controlled syllable
Phonics
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Vr
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
10. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Vowel Digraph
Criterion-Referenced Test
Mathew Effect
Accuracy
11. Academic Language Therapy Association
Prefix
Syllable
Impulsivity
ALTA
12. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Sound Symbol Association
Vr
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Phoneme
13. Final stable syllable
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14. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
MSLE
Auditory Processing
Visual Learners
Diagnostic Teaching
15. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
Top-down Reading Approach
IEP
Chall's Stage 1
Rate
16. Multisensory Structured Language
Visual Learners
Trigraph
MSL
V-e
17. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Joe Torgesen
Linguistic Method
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Standard score
18. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Chall's Stage 0
Affix
Phonemic/ decodable words
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
19. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
The Norman Conquest
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Standard Scores
20. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
VV
ALTA
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Diagnostic Teaching
21. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Profile
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Chall's Stage 4
ADHD
22. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Battery
Progress Monitoring
Latin layer of language
Digraph
23. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Closed Syllable
Modification
ADHD
Pre-English
24. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Morpheme
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Syllable
Suffix
25. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Ability
Universal Screening
Closed Syllable
Standard deviation
26. Feeling through fingertips
Base Word
V >
Tactile
Suffix
27. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Morphology
Funding
Universal Screening
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
28. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Norm-referenced tests
Funding
Standard Scores
Syllable
29. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Breve
MSL
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Morphology
30. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Oral Language
Mastery level
Funding
Syllable Instruction
31. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Latin layer of language
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Grade equivalents
Matthew Effect
32. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Combination
IDEA
Direct Instruction
Joe Torgesen
33. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Raw score
Pre-English
Texas Education Code 38.003
Phonics approach
34. Open syllable
Funding
Phonemic Awareness
Combination
V >
35. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Texas Education Code 28.06
Vowel
Adolf Kusmaul
Impulsivity
36. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Academic Achievement Tests
Phonemic/ decodable words
Accuracy
Mathew Effect
37. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Attention
Oral Language
Battery
Percentile
38. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Expressive language
Standard deviation
Mathew Effect
Morpheme
39. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
IMSLEC
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Joe Torgesen
Modification
40. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
The Norman Conquest
Phonemic/ decodable words
Achievement test
41. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Comprehension
Syntax
Fluency
Anna Gillingham
42. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
Tilde
Visual Processing
Base Word
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
43. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.
Oral Language
Joe Torgesen
Phoneme
Diagnostic Teaching
44. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Frank Smith
Receptive language
Tilde
Analytic
45. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Anglo Saxon
Phonics
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Auditory Learners
46. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Diagnostic Teaching
WRAT
Latin layer of language
Chall's Stage 4
47. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
Matthew Effect
Samuel T. Orton
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Three Layers of Language
48. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Standard score
CTOPP
Orthography
Phonological Awareness
49. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Attention
Cognition
James Hinshelwood
Syllable
50. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Breve
Chall's Stage 0
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Composite Score